CHAPTER 481: CHAPTER 287 IMPORTANT DISCOVERY_3

Among the disappeared was a local resident.

This information had to be accurate. Otherwise, even with common interests involved, silencing the families of the missing would be extremely difficult.

Following this line of thought, Cheston En couldn’t possibly have obtained useful information from a mere room-cleaning attendant unless...that attendant was one of the participants in the disappearance case!!!

The attendant Cheston En had sounded out, Murphy, was the breakthrough!

Finally, Cheston En had proven his worth!

With that in mind, Dean threw away his cigarette butt. No longer caring if he exposed himself, he drove into the small town, heading towards the hotel where he had stayed the previous night.

Cheston En had been caught, and there was a possibility that the agents’ identities had been exposed.

If that Murphy truly had issues, she would definitely make a move.

Any hesitation, and if she escaped, the vital clues they had just obtained would be lost!

Dean planned to forcibly take Murphy first.

As long as she hadn’t had the chance to escape and was still a carbon-based lifeform, he was confident he could pry open her mouth and get the breakthrough clue for the disappearance case!

As for Cheston En... Besides, there was hardly any chance of him facing life-threatening danger. He just needed to lay low in the police station’s detention cells. Dean would carry this one!

「...」

The town wasn’t big.

With his superb driving skills, Dean parked his car on a street not far from the hotel within minutes.

Seeing that no one around had noticed him, he reached out his hand. Like a performing Magician, a wig and several disguise components suddenly appeared in it.

Just as Dean was preparing to disguise himself and then find a passerby to trick Murphy into coming out,

THUD.

The ground shook.

A figure in a black and white maid outfit crashed headfirst onto the marble floor at the hotel entrance, like a blooming dandelion. Blood oozed out. The black skirt spread slowly, covering the middle-aged woman’s unblinking eyes while also revealing her thick, white-stockinged, shoeless thighs...

Dean looked at the five-story hotel, then at the white-stockinged, radish-like thighs on the marble floor, anger flashing in his eyes.

Although he had never seen the attendant Murphy, his instincts told him the corpse before him was Murphy!

She had been silenced!

She must have been silenced because Cheston En’s identity as an FBI agent was exposed!

With this thought, Dean dropped the wig in his hand and stared intently at the hotel’s main entrance.

The attendant Murphy was silenced mere moments after Cheston En was taken away; it was undoubtedly a hasty and foolish act.

This indicated that Cheston En’s discovery might be fatal to the crime ring behind the disappearances!

Murphy was dead. The next one might well be Cheston En.

But Dean had no immediate thought of rushing to the rescue.

The logic was simple. If the local police station was involved in the disappearances, then it was already too late to go now. If the local police station wasn’t involved, and was only concealing information to protect the town’s reputation and businesses, then leaving now could very likely allow Murphy’s killer to escape!

..

The moment he saw the corpse on the ground, Dean’s mind went into overdrive.

Murphy was a local. Therefore, Murphy’s killer was highly likely to be a local too! So, the killer couldn’t have disguised themselves as a guest after killing Murphy; a local checking into such an expensive hotel for no reason would be too conspicuous. If the killer wasn’t a hotel employee like Murphy, they would have to leave. The hotel had front and back doors, but the back door was for internal staff use. An outsider using it would easily be noticed and remembered by other hotel employees. Any sensible killer wouldn’t risk exposure by leaving through the hotel’s back door. They would most likely blend into the crowd of onlookers, pretend to observe for a while, and then leave the hotel with everyone else...

If the killer was a hotel insider, even better! That would be far easier than finding a suspect in a crowd of onlookers.

「...」

Just as Dean was on the verge of uncovering the truth, Cheston En, on the other hand, was about to experience the greatest darkness and shame of his life.

Sticky lubricant trickled down his short blonde hair, slid slowly over his chest and spine, and eventually, following the contours of his body, converged at his anus, bringing a disturbing slickness.

All color had drained from Cheston En’s pale face.

His once defiant gaze now only held terror, and every trembling muscle in his body silently screamed, Don’t come over here!!!

But this display of terror would undoubtedly only serve to excite his tormentor.

The muscular, hairy prison guard slowly unbuttoned his uniform—a symbol of the town’s order. Holding a small, yellow rubber duck, he began to slide it back and forth over the oil slicking Cheston En’s body...

He, Maria the ’Drainage Unblocker,’ had always had a fondness for defiant young men!!!

Maria donned a mask that exposed only his eyes, nose, and mouth. He turned on a nearby video camera and took a deep breath.

He was about to begin his ’work.’